Internet dating, have you tried it? Scared of strangers? Thread is a little twist on the meeting singles online model because it connects you to your friends of friends. Sign in with facebook and browse from a pool of singles who you almost know. From there you've got the easy in of ‘Hey I'm a friend of John too, let's date'. Easy sleazy. There is even an option for “taken” people to play with thread “only” as a matchmaker.

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Accessing your favorite social nets on iPhone is currently a less than amazing experience, mainly because of the need to switch between networks, mapping, and contact information (it's enough to make a person frantic). But if the Paris company Never Alone Anymore has its way, the new HiMyTribe app will serve as the location-based people finder of choice. It uses the iPhone and iPod Touch's GPS capabilities to help people manage their groups (or professional and personal “tribes”) and identify people they would want to meet who are in their vicinity. A criteria-based search engine helps you locate people with similar interests, including business travelers, friends of friends, conference goers—even potential dates. (Imagine looking for a well-qualified designer who can meet you for espresso in Zurich on the fly.) There is a “blacklist” option, and exact locations aren't shown until the other user accepts. The free app, which the company describes as the “first truly real-time person to person application for the iPhone,” allows for 20 tribe members globally, or there's a larger network option with a monthly fee.

The digital age has changed the ways in which we share our most important opinions and innermost secrets. The latter are usually reserved for our closest of acquaintances, but we don’t necessarily use the most personal approach to broach these delicate details. The combination of technology and weight of information has given us new rules for just how to break the news. Ji Lee’s 10 Levels of Intimacy in Today’s Communication is both an interesting and absurd display of the redefinition and possible redistribution of how we continue on with our most cherished connections.

Whether you fancy yourself an elite member of the Twitterati or you’d rather just give your friends information on a need to know basis, there’s absolutely no denying the ubiquity of the hottest microblogging technology since someone posted a twitpic of sliced bread. However, many people are already getting bogged down by the thought of crafting lengthy 140 character posts. If only there were some way to tell other people what we’re doing faster. Well now there is … but there isn’t … but there is. Slate V’s mockumentary on a new application called Flutter gives the semi-absurdity of the Twitterverse an appropriate sendup. No matter how addicted you are to constantly renewing your status, you’re sure to get a good laugh out of this absolutely delicious satire.

Twitter is a great way for fostering discussion amongst your friends, telling strangers how your doctor’s appointment went, or staying up-to-date on Shaq. But sometimes you just need Twitter’s important opinions on one particular topic. Thanks to OneRiot’s new Twitter search engine, you can get all the tweets you need and none that you don’t. Find out what people really think of last night’s Gossip Girl, or something more important like the fate of our world at the G20 summit (pictured above).

There are a couple reasons why the name Peter Gregson should be stuck on your mind. First and foremost he is the brilliant classical cellist that we’ve raved about a number of times. Second, he is reinventing the way audiences interact with performers. Remember when he set up a Twitter wall concert? This time he’s taking his relationship with Twitter to the next level — as in straight to their home base. Peter will preform a live microconcert from Twitter HQ in San Fransisco. This isn’t just a treat for the employees, it’s also being broadcast in HD for all of us. Even the program notes are 140 characters.

Prelude Suite#1 (Bach), Spiegel im Spiegel (Part), Appalachian Waltz (O’Connor), Corpus Christi Carol (Britten), Song of the Birds (Beamish)

The show begins at 1:30 p.m. PST from Peter’s site or here. It will be available for HD streaming on demand if you miss it. Follow @petergregson or @coffeeloop for any updates. Otherwise, sit back and enjoy the midday musical stream from one of the best cello performers we know.

There’s a lot of musical ability floating around on the Internet, so why not put them together for a little jam session? Enter Kutiman, a YouTube mixmaster who turns brilliant yet unsuspecting artists into bandmates on his website ThruYou. The online remix renegade helps solo players make the smooth, involuntary transition to collaborator by slicing and dicing their videos.

Hoards of people are currently using Twitter to say nothing, so it isn’t surprising there are more than a few who are anti-tweet. One of my favorite visual Twitter kiss-offs comes from Josh Holland via JoyEngine. Josh “cannot wait until Twitter goes the way of the slap bracelet and they’re talking about it on VH1’s I Love the 2000s.” (I’d say, “oh snap!” if I didn’t think that would get me on VH1 too.) If you share the sentiment, you can download the graphic above. Meanwhile Cypher13, aka the JoyEngine crew, set up an experimental micro-site for their own micro-blogging (in macro-font). But, there are some good uses for the technology. Like Shaq.

Editors Note: I don’t dislike twitter– in fact, I find it to be quite a powerful tool. You just need to fine tune it to hear the signal, not the noise. And I definitely don’t think it will go the way of the slap bracelet, we just thought it was a funny post. From time to time we like to open up a bit of a debate here, jump in and enjoy.

Nearly everyone will come up with a great T-shirt idea at least once in their life, but not everyone will see it produced. Whether you’ve got some sick design skills or a great slogan, your tee deserves to be seen by the masses. Dirty Launderette wants to make your wearable wish come true. The new shirt-based social networking site asks users to create profiles and upload their one of a kind clothing content. Creations are then voted on by the online design community (or the friends they get to join it) over the course of a three week cycle. Once that cycle stops spinning, the winning design is added to the Dirty Launderette shop and the designer gets a free copy. Reap fashionable rewards by voting, purchasing tees and posting pictures to earn free clothing. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to us.

There’s no better price than free with the current economic climate, especially when it comes with a laugh. Two recent animated spots for the video chat service TokBox feature relationship phone follies that could use some visual interaction (including one that starts with flowers and ends up being lost in translation.) Produced by Mekanism and written by Drew Hoolhorst, the brief videos are obviously ads trying to convince you to sign up for the free chat and video mail service — but at least they’re funny. Your personalized TokBox link can be added to your blog or social network profile, making it easy (and cost effective) to share your own romantic faux paux.

The name cliKball sounds like a fun new mouse game — and in a way it is. Coming across like a Twitter for link sharing, the plug-in co-created by Jesse Andrews of Userscripts.org fame and three other principles formerly of Flock, allows users to easily alert their fellow URL hounds to their favorite sites at the click of a little red ball in their browser. Aside from sharing with all your followers in one felled swoop, cliKball users can privately spread  links to specific groups or persons, and even spread the love on Twitter and Friend Feed.

Everybody has neighbors, even if they’re miles away. Those relationships can vary from … well … neighborly to downright cold. And there are probably some things you’d like to say to those people — like stop stealing our paper and replacing it with dog poop. The site Neighbourland allows you to say what you feel — even if you’re too cowardly to go next door and confront them. The project is just getting started, but eventually you’ll be conveying your love or hate in an appropriate way. A fun picture might even soften the blow.

In the digital age we’ve all become victims of information overload. We’re flooded with so much data via blogs, emails, and attachments that we often forget not only where we got it from, but where we put it. Gist combines all your important information by combing through Outlook, Gmail, LInkedIn and Twitter to create a happy place where your data and relationships integrate in a logical order, making all the elements of your electronic life easier to manage. For instance, if you’ve been emailing with Josh, and he’s been tweeting, and then he appears in a news story, Gist aggregates all of that info and puts it at your fingertips. This is for anyone with a large network of contacts who need to stay up to date on the companies and people important to their business. The application is currently in its private beta stage, but we expect big things on the horizon.

The Australian Open may have just settled on two winners, but there’s another huge tennis event on the horizon that doesn’t require you work on your half-volley or be a clay court specialist. Layer Tennis 2009 is a season of live online design events presented by Adobe Creative Suite 4 and Coudal Partners, in which two players swap files in a real-time design volley, enhancing each other’s work over a period of 15 minutes while a writer adds insightful play-by-play. Each game contains 10 volleys and allows viewers to vote on the winner when the match reaches its logical conclusion. The first dose of design action gets served up this Friday February 6th at 3p.m. You could have a front row seat to all the excitement by simply becoming a season ticket holder, which makes you eligible to vote on the winners and post comments. The Layer Tennis 2009 season has 43 matches taking place every Friday until May 29th. You can tune into the matches on Twitter or get your season ticket for a better view.

Millions of people are talking all day, every day on twitter. But what if all those people came together and actually did something? Enter Twestival, a global event organized through twitter taking place on February 12th. Over 100 cities have signed up for events, rounded up sponsors and put together guest lists. The goal of the event is to raise money and awareness to combat the 1.1 billion people who don’t tweet have clean water to drink. To find out more about the cause visit the charity: water group. Each city is asked to set a goal of at least $4,000 (the price to sponsor a water well in a development area). Check out this page to find out more information.